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can't remember the first time I heard throat singing - probably on one of the National Geographic TV episodes my parents forced me to sit through when I was a child. It was a sound I never got out of my head. I didn't realize it was a Mongolian form of music until much later.Known as khoomi, Mongolian throat singing is an ancient art form that is thought to have originated in Tuva which is now an autonomous republic of Russia that borders Mongolia. I'm sure way back in time, long before formal country borders were defined, Tuvans and Mongolias were the same peoples. Today, the art form of throat singing is practiced in Tuva, Mongolia as well as several Central Asian countries.